Randeep Hooda: My Mother And Sister Were Threatened After Gurmehar Kaur Controversy

He was branded a ‘sexist’ after speaking out against Delhi University student Gurmehar Kaur and now Randeep Hooda is paying the price for it

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Randeep Hooda: My Mother And Sister Were Threatened After Gurmehar Kaur Controversy

Randeep Hooda will be seen on the small screen as the host of the MTV show Big F. To promote the show, Randeep was live on Facebook a few minutes back. And to no one’s surprise, the conversation was hijacked by the Gurmehar Kaur controversy.

Gurmehar Kaur, a Delhi University student protested the recent violence at Ramjas College by holding a written message on camera, which said that she is against the violence allegedly perpetrated by ABVP (Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad).

Soon the trolls came for her and the issue snowballed when cricketer Virender Sehwag and Randeep were accused of bullying her on Twitter.

So as soon as the Facebook video started, the first question was about the Gurmehar Kaur controversy. “Elephant in the room. Huh,” started Randeep.

Then he went on to explain his role in the controversy.

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Image Source:  twitter/virendersehwag, facebook/gurmehr7

“Firstly I didn’t know who this girl was…I saw a tweet by Sehwag and I often laugh at his jokes, since he makes funny jokes on all kinds of things and I just laughed at it and left it and didn’t see any connotations on it!. Then I got some messages and these prominent journalists started commenting and conversing about it, so I went back on Twitter and I saw what was going on then I immediately said, do not politicize this poor girl’s point of view and then those two words very were taken up. ‘Poor’, you’re a misogynists and ‘girl’ said you are sexist. But, if it was a boy I would have said the same thing! And I pointedly said violence was wrong and peace must prevail and do not politicize a young girl’s point of view. And people came up with all kinds of things.Despite being a girl, she’s a thinking girl and I said yes I have taken the thinking girl for granted.”

Randeep said that he was then subjected to the same ‘bullying’ that he was accused of.

“At that moment I wasn’t aware of any threats to her at all and when I did become aware of them, I immediately issued a statement, clarified my stand that violence is wrong and violence against women is a heinous crime and the perpetrators should be brought to justice and made an example of... But by the time the narrative was set and I was labelled and put in a box!.”

“It seems to me that we are not having a conversation anymore, as we tend to be abusive and we are trolling people and I think that it’s absolutely wrong! You can have a point of view and you can disagree that’s fine! It’s a democracy but to put it in perspective, let’s come to the other part, Now remove me and Sehwag from it, we are men, we don’t have emotions, we are not affected or hurt be the abuse we get! Put us aside we are successful men and it doesn’t matter that it took us 20 years to get where we have. Put us aside!,” the actor said, getting emotional.

trandeep hooda the big f mtv
Image Source: twitter/RandeepHooda

After a long pause, he revealed that after the controversy, the women in his family were targeted too.

“The same threats were given to our mothers and sisters and to Sehwag’s family,” revealed Randeep.

He further added that online trolls had targeted women like the Dangal sisters Babita Phoghat and Geeta Phogat and Pooja Bhatt too.

“This nameless thing, faceless thing, trolling is going on. Whether it’s a man or women it’s very wrong! It’s absolutely a crime and you cannot threaten a woman with violence on social media and that is what has to be addressed against trolling and especially trolling against women,” said Randeep.


Thumbnail Image Source: instagram/GurMeharKaur & hdimages

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